Teacher 3D prints prosthetic hand for 4th grader right in the school's lab: 'It cost about $20'

Teacher 3D prints prosthetic hand for 4th grader right in the school's lab: 'It cost about $20'

When Jackson Farmer was in kindergarten at Red Cross Elementary School in Glasgow, Kentucky, one of his teachers noticed that he would often come to school wearing a rubber hand. Farmer was born without a right hand, and the rubber device didn’t give him any functionality, but it did provide the appearance of having a hand. That teacher, Scott Johnson, is a science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics educator at the school, working in a lab environment for every student, whether they’re in kindergarten, all the way up to sixth grade. As he followed Farmer’s educational journey over the years, they grew a special bond. “The first year we met, he was a kindergartener and he cracked a joke at me, ‘Hey, do you need a you need an extra hand?’” Johnson told WDRB News. “And all of a sudden, he pulled off his silicone hand and started to hand it to me and I was like, ‘Oh, buddy.’ Like, he got me hooked, line, and sinker.” One of 11 3D printers in Red Cross Elementary’s STEAM lab prints…